GOLDEN OLDIE

Who remembers the early days of the dances during the day in the City Hall Ballroom and who met their partner at one?

Does anyone know if Miss Afflick was the Matron at S.Agathas in 1960/61?

I hope people will reply to my post asking for information on the sequence of events when a young woman became pregnant out of wedlock in the 1950s/60s. I want to get it right!!!

I am writing a book which is set in the 1950s in Sheffield and inspired by a friend who became pregnant in the late 1950s. Her baby was mixed race and considered hard to place for adoption. Therefore my friend kept her. What was the process in Sheffield at that time when a girl found she was pregnant? Did her parents take her to the doctors? Contact welfare officers/social workers?And would the welfare officers make all the arrangements for Saint Agathas and the maternity hospital at Chapeltown, and possibly the adoption process? Where were the offices of social services (if it was called that then?} Alas my friend is not around to ask. I would be very grateful if someone could let me know the sequence of events in what was a dreadful time for so many young women.

Who remembers the Duke of Darnall complete with spats and dress suit, stood behind the policeman who was on duty in the middle of the road, near Fitzalan Square, and copying his moves? There were some interesting characters in the City Centre in the 1950s!!! Big Ada and Pond Street Nora!!!!

I can relate to growing up in Sheffield in the 19 50s and I have documented it in my recently published book - 'BOTTLE GREEN KNICKERS WITH POCKETS - GROWING UP IN 1950S SHEFFIELD' My mother was an Irish immigrant from the Republic of Ireland, and who married my father from Sheffield in the 1940s. We lived in a Council house, first at Shiregreen and then at Sheffield Lane Top. We hardly ever saw a black face in Sheffield during the 1950s and in fact there were very few, if any black ,or Asian actors on television. 'The Black and White Minstrels Show' was an example of that! Eventually my mother went back to work in the early 1960s as a nurse at the then 'City General Hospital' where she had black nursing friends who had emigrated, as she had done, but from the West Indies. Going to a Catholic school we were encouraged to bring money to school to buy pictures of little black babies who were being educated in Africa by Catholic missionaries! We had no idea where Africa was!!! Thank goodness we have moved on! But, have we? For details of my book email - monica.dyson42@ btopenworld.com

If you go on the website - Sheffield Star and scrawl down to the very bottom of the page - click on 'Retro' and you'll find one of my Tuesdays articles called - Teenagers, Jukeboxes and Coffee Bars' The Mambo has a mention. It is also in my recently published book - 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing up in 1950s Sheffield' Good for a Christmas present for anyone remembering the 50s or those bottle green gym knickers!! monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com.

Many thanks to the Sheffield forum member who bought 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets -Growing Up In -1950s Sheffield' Hope you enjoy the nostalgia!!!

'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing up in 1950s Sheffield' dips into the 50s and 60s music scene. I know because I've written it!!! Cost £13. email - monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com for details.

Who sang with the Bernard Taylor Band at the City Hall ballroom in the 1950s?

I went to St.Patricks Primary School before Notre Dame (around 1952) The nuns from The Convent on Burngreave Road taught at St.Pats also!!

Miss Jowitt was teaching when I left in 1959! She gave us rather dubious sex advice!! Also Mrs Chapelle! So goodness knows how old they were when they retired!!!! I have a chapter on Notre Dame High School in my book 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing Up in 1950s Sheffield' which was published last year and which has been doing well!! For any information email me on monica.dyson42@btopenworld.com. I am distributing the book from home. You can see launch reviews in the Sheffield Star by googling Monica Mary Morton (my Maiden name) Enjoy the nostalgia!!!!

Gaz786!! I also worked in the kitchen at the Regency in the early 70s. After seeing what happened to the food between ordering and going out to the unsuspecting diners, I would NEVER eat there!!

Does anyone remember what year The Regency Restaurant was built? Was it around 1970?

Does anyone know where Social Services was in Sheffield in the 1960s, before Redvers House was built. Especially with regards to adoptions?

Anyone know if there were any Catholic childrens homes in Sheffield in 1960? And, what homes were there of any denomination? Not necessarily mother and baby but for children who were never adopted.

Anyone ever seen any photos of the El Mambo, especially interior? Was the entrance in Cambridge Arcade or on Union Street? Please help!!!

Was the chip shop Hoskings or Hoskins?

Ian sadly died of cancer some years ago. His father Arthur was.by all accounts, a real character!!!

Does anyone remember Arthur Whyte, landlord of the Horseshoe in the 1960s?

Anyone know the history of this club? Was it open in the 1960s? and is it still open today?

Does anyone know when the Wharncliffe Hotel at Firth Park first became popular as a music venue? And remember some of the names appearing in the 1960s?

Does anyone remember going to this club on Union Street and have any photos of it?

It was Radford and they had a daughter called Susan who was a friend of my sister Eileen. They lived in a house on what we called The Oval because it had a garden (tended by the Council every week) with the houses behind. I have written a book called 'Bottle Green Knickers With Pockets - Growing up in the 1950s' published last year, which tells the story of my childhood at Homestead Road and in Sheffield generally during that time! I lived at 70 Homestead Road. My maiden name was Morton. I went to St.Pats and then to Notre Dame High School around 1953 or so!! My immediate neighbours were Forman, Hyde, McGrail, Fallon and Bishop.

Does anyone remember the Red Lion pub at the back of the City Hall? It may have ultimately been called something else then but at some time they introduced a 'cook your own food' idea where you could cook pieces of steak? on a slate slab in front of you? The concept didn't last long! Think it was the late 70s or early 80s?